Facebook is one of the social networks that has the most users in the world , and despite having been on the market for many years, it continues to be in force, manages to gain followers and is constantly renewed, offering new innovative, useful and technological.
As we know; everything goes through the networks! But it is necessary to know their proposals and strategies. Before starting we want to make a brief clarification that usually leads to confusion. There are notable differences between ‘ getting more followers’ on a Facebook page, which can be a venture, being related to a space to share some knowledge.
Show your skills, spread quality information or your personal brand; and the “ followers ” option in a personal profile. Watch out! If you use your personal profile for advertising purposes and/or promote content, you may be sanctioned by the platform.
The purpose of this option in your profile is that you can select what content your followers can see , which are those people who do not belong to your list of friends.
In this article, we are going to show you a basic guide to the “followers” option, how it works from a mobile device, on different Facebook operating systems and platforms, and some security tips for your profile.
Index( )
- What is the process to activate followers on the Facebook profile?
- How to activate the followers in Facebook Lite on the cell phone?
- Why doesn’t the follower option appear on Facebook?
- How to see who follows your profile on Facebook?
- On Android or iOS mobile
- From your Windows PC or Mac
- How are followers hidden on Facebook?
What is the process to activate followers on the Facebook profile?
In principle, the process to activate followers is very simple and it is about knowing the basic configurations to be able to establish what content we want to remain as “public” and what as “private”, for this you must:
- Open the app.
- Go to the drop-down menu, which is in the upper right corner, its icon is a kind of down arrow.
- Select the “settings” option and then “public posts”
- There you will find the option “who can follow me” with the options “friends” and “public”, if you select the latter you will be enabling the “followers” option. Inside this box called “public post filters and tools” you will find different managements that you can start editing.
This option enables people to see your posts without being on your friends list. Keep in mind that you can choose between: “friends”, “specific friends”, “public”, “friends except acquaintances” and “only me”, these options can be managed manually in your publications.
How to activate the followers in Facebook Lite on the cell phone?
Although this application belongs to Facebook, it is a version with fewer functions than the original one offers, but with the advantage that its weight is much lower, and therefore it occupies less space on our cell phones. However, in this version we can also activate the option of followers :
- Open the app and sign in
- Go to the drop-down menu, which is in the upper right corner, its icon is three horizontal stripes.
- Select the “settings” option, and then click on “Audience and security”,once positioned in this box select “followers and public content”.
- Finally, in this section you must select “who can follow me” and then choose between “public” and “friends”. As we mentioned before, the “public” option is to activate “followers”.
Facebook contains an option called “view as” that enables you to see how your followers see your profile . Unlike Facebook Lite, it does not have this option.
Why doesn’t the follower option appear on Facebook?
It is very common that we do not find the followers option , and it is that as we mentioned in the guides it is “public”. Now, it may happen that you do not have followers yet, that is why you cannot view it, remember to go into settings and check that it is in “public”. On the other hand, you can verify this situation in “see how”.
How to see who follows your profile on Facebook?
Remember that this option is a way to manage your security, posts, interactions and also your friends and followers. It is very possible, and even if you receive the notifications, you still do not know the number of your followers , you can check it through your cell phone or a PC .
On Android or iOS mobile
- You can check who follows you through an Android or IOS device as follows:
- Open the app and sign in.
- go to your profile
- Select “information” and you will find “followers”. There you will see a list with all your followers.
From your Windows PC or Mac
- In the same way you can see who your followers are through a Windows PC or Mac:
- Go to your browser, open the app and sign in.
- Go to your profile.
- In a tab called “Details”,located on the far left you will see the “followers” option.
- There you can display the list of all your followers.
How are followers hidden on Facebook?
Facebook has different functions that allow us to visualize and make our information known, but it also contains functions that allow us to hide certain data that we do not want to show, a kind of invisible mode. In this sense, there is an option to hide our followers and we can activate it as follows:
- Sign in to Facebook.
- Go to your profile and select the tab labeled “friends”.
- There you can see a pencil icon that allows you to edit your privacy.
- Finally, a list will be displayed where you can choose who can access to see your followers.
Your list of followers can be long or short, but remember that you can decide if you want those people to follow you. You can remove them from your list by clicking on the chosen profile and a box will appear under the title of “reply”, you can “confirm”, that is, it will belong to your friends list, or ” delete “, this function will remove it from your list of followers.
Many times, we do not want to receive requests from certain people for different reasons, or on other more unfortunate occasions we can receive different types of violence on this social network, and in this sense, Facebook has a blocking option. It consists of being able to guarantee that we will not receive any type of request or information that refers to that person.